Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe Audiobook (Free)

A groundbreaking, research-based guideline that sheds fresh light on why teenagers help to make dangerous choices–and offers solutions that work

Texting while generating. Binge-drinking. Unprotected sex. There are many known reasons for parents to worry about obtaining a late-night contact about their teen. But a lot of the information parents and teachers hear about teens is outdated and unscientific–and simply doesn’t work.

Acclaimed adolescent psychiatrist and educator Jess Shatkin brings more than two decades’ on the subject of Born to Be Wild: Why Teenagers Take Dangers, and How We Can Help Hold Them Safe well worth of research and medical experience to the topic, along with cutting-edge findings from brain science, evolutionary psychology, game theory, and additional disciplines — plus a widely curious mind and the perspective of the concerned dad himself.

Using science and tales, refreshing analogies, clinical anecdotes, and research-based observations, Shatkin explains:

* Why ‘afraid right,’ adult reasoning, and draconian consequence don’t work

* Why the teenager brain is ‘born to become wild’–shaped by progression to explore and take dangers

* The surprising role of brain advancement, hormones, peer pressure, display time, and various other key factors

* What parents and instructors can do–in everyday interactions, teachable occasions, and specially particular activities and outings–to use teens’ dependence on risk, benefits and social acceptance, not really against it.

“Presents new analysis, aswell as insights being a clinician and a dad….This book is a definite argument to avoid putting ourselves in our children’s shoes, also to try putting ourselves in their minds, instead.”

-The Washington Post

“With stories (personal and professional), neuroscience and cognition, mindset and clinical encounter Dr. Shatkin provides an great quantity of understandable, interesting and actionable information. He points out why and displays how. We can reduce risk in the adolescents we like and instruct, but only if we realize to how exactly to do so and then do it. Blessed To Be Crazy shows us the best way to succeed.”

–Psychology Today

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